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Getting a foreign divorce… Greek style
Millions of Greeks and people of Greek background live outside the borders of Greece. Many of them are Greek – born, who left the country for a better future several …
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FECCA calls out the outrageous 60,000 case backlog in visa appeals
The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) today labelled the 60,000 case backlog in visa appeals before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) as unacceptable. The Australian today reported that …
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades to appeal Turkish plans for reopening of Varosha
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades told reporters in New York that Cyprus intends to appeal to the UN Security Council over Turkish plans to reopen the ghost town of Varosha in …
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Love triumphs for English groom, called Thomas Cook, who got married on Rhodes despite Thomas Cook’s collapse
Not even the collapse of Thomas Cook could prevent Tom Cook and Amelia Binch from tying the knot in Rhodes on Saturday, 28 September. For a while, it was touch …
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Drones made in Greece
Greece has entered a new era in the production of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – the so-called drones. The MPU RX-4, the fruit of a Greek project to develop and manufacture …
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Athens to Thessaloniki in three hours by 2021
The new administration of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) in association with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has plans to cut travel time between Athens to Thessaloniki from four-and-a-half …
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Greek Australian pensioners confused over pension supplement
If you are a pensioner holidaying in Greece for more than six weeks you will lose your one-off Pension Supplement until you return to Australia. However you will continue to …
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Greek PM meets with Zaev: “I would not have signed the Prespes deal”
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made his views of the Prespes Agreement loud and clear during a meeting with his North Macedonia counterpart, Zoran Zaev, stating that he would not …
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Time to roll up in Canberra
The ACT has become the fist jurisdiction in Australia to legalise the possession, use and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis. The laws that were passed in the ACT Legislative …
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Greek Prime Minister anticipated to visit Australia in 2020
Greece’s recently appointed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to visit Australia in 2020. Mitsotakis met with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison on Tuesday for a bilateral meeting during the …